Gospel Code, Ben Witherington III
Gospel Code, Ben Witherington III
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Gospel Code
Novel Claims About Jesus, Mary Magdalene, and Da Vinci

Author: Ben Witherington III

Narrator: Ben Witherington III

Unabridged: 5 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/01/2005


Synopsis

Was Jesus really married to Mary Magdalene? // Did he father a child with her? // Did Constantine suppress the earliest Gospels and invent the doctrine of Christ's divinity? // Do the Gnostic Gospels represent the true Christian faith which the early church sought to supplant? // The Da Vinci Code, in blurring the lines between fact and fiction, popularizes the speculations and contentions of numerous more serious books that are also attracting wide attention. How should we respond to claims that we now have documents that reveal secrets about Jesus, secrets long suppressed by the church and other religious institutions? Do these new documents successfully debunk traditional views about Jesus and early Christianity? // Ben Witherington III confronts these claims with the sure-footedness of a New Testament scholar, yet in the plain language that any interested reader can follow. He takes us back to the early centuries after Jesus' death and tells us what we can really know about Jesus, Mary Magdalene, the canonical Gospels and their Gnostic rivals.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Craig on November 26, 2018

This patient dissection of heresies is diminished, for me at least, having followed a reading of “Reason for God” by Tim Keller. What results is a stark contrast between an author that exudes compassion and empathy for his audience’s sincerely-held fallacies and a scholar’s rabid attack that, althou......more

Goodreads review by Peter Kiss on February 28, 2023

A scholarly dumping on the Da Vinci Code and the obnoxious, ignorant speculations that have arisen from such novelties. I found the book to be very interesting and hold a high esteem for Witherington as a scholar, despite his liberalities and how difficult he is to pick though. I found the parts wit......more

Goodreads review by Peresapy on November 27, 2022

It's a really interesting book, but not even near to the title. All the topics are well research and treated with respect and objectivity, but they only mentioned The Da Vinci Code a couple of times in the book (not really what one expects with the book description). Anyway, I liked the book so 3/5 s......more

Goodreads review by Todd on June 09, 2015

Refutation of the general heresy of Gnosticism and claims about Mary Magdalene as the wife of Jesus, specifically in response to the forever-running best seller "The DaVinci Code" by Dan Brown (which I rated "Well, OK, I guess" for its fun but not great suspense). Witherington does a good job of maki......more

Goodreads review by Michael on February 05, 2016

A clear and above all well-researched criticism of Dan Brown's The DaVinci Code. Mr Witherington explores the true history of the early church, the actual findings of scholars of the first Christian centuries, and the real doctrines of Gnosticism. Going in, I expected to find abstruse chains of reas......more